Healthydebate.ca: What if your health-care team included an artist?
Article from Healthydebate.ca that mentions MAC’s ArtsCare program and explores incorporating the arts into regular health-care plans.
Arts for Mental Health
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Engaging in the arts to improve mental well-being
Article from McMaster University on how to include arts-based programming into healthcare plans to combat depressive symptoms in older adults.
Canada Council for the Arts: When kids find the arts, communities feel the impact
Article from the Canada Council for the Arts highlighting the impact on theatre and youth.
Canada Council for the Arts: The Rise of Social Prescribing in Canada
Article from the Canada Council for the Arts highlighting the benefits of Social Prescription and some incredible programs across Canada.
How the arts can help cure the loneliness epidemic. It’s called a social prescription and its catching on (Gail Lord and Lola Rasminsky, Toronto Star)
“Imagine if arts programs were considered part of our national strategy to combat mental illness and loneliness?”
Art lights up our brains and ignites action (David Suzuki and Jode Roberts, David Suzuki Foundation)
“When we encounter art — whether it’s a painting, dance, music or story — our brains engage networks tied to emotion, memory and empathy.”
the toolkit: Improv w/ Shanda Bezic – Red Nose Remedy
“the toolkit” is a workshop series designed to bring together a community of like-minded artists who use their practices to serve the greater good.
Yes, Listening to Music Is Therapy (Daniel J. Levitin, The Walrus)
The Walrus: Music reduces pain, increases resilience, and reconnects Alzheimer’s patients with their memories. It’s time for science to take it seriously
Making arts and crafts improves your mental health as much as having a job, scientists find (Riane Lumer, CNN)
CNN article on the benefits of arts and crafts on your mental health according to studies published in Frontiers in Public Health.
Creative arts therapy can help healthcare workers experiencing burnout, researchers say (The Conversation, Fast Company)
“The creative process invites doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to remember what it means to be human, to be vulnerable.”